In 1979, International Standardization Organization (ISO) set up
Quality Management and Quality Assurance Technical Committee
(TC176), which is in charge of constituting standards for quality
management and quality assurance. Since issued in 1987, a standard
of ISO9000 series has gone through modification of 1994 edition and
2000 edition, and become today’s standards of ISO9001: 2000 series.

ISO9000 series standard of 2000 edition includes the following
suite of core standards of quality management system, which are
closely related to each other.

ISO9000 series standard is the scientific sum-up of experiences of
many developed countries’ practice in quality management, and it
applies to organizations of different types and sizes, and
providing different products. Bringing ISO9000 series standard into
effect can improve the management of an organization.